Obeid defiant: Good Samaritan wounded by commissioner's insensitivity

''I feel offended as an Australian that has spent most of my life helping people,'' said the ever-ebullient Eddie Obeid about the trifecta of corruption findings against him which demonstrated, yet again, that the people he helped most happened to be Obeids.

Outside his Hunters Hill mansion on Thursday afternoon, the most crooked politician this country has ever seen was boldly proclaiming his innocence after yet more devastating findings against him by the Independent Commission Against Corruption.

Not only was he found to be corrupt several times over, but Acting Commissioner Anthony Whealy recommended that prosecuting bodies give consideration as to whether he should face criminal charges for misconduct in public office.

This mirrors earlier findings and recommendations against him by former commissioner David Ipp, but Obeid still claims that ICAC ''have not called up any credible witness''.

Eddie Obeid. Pictuer: ROB HOMER

In his customary mangled metaphors - ''I am not taking [ICAC's findings] with a grain of salt'' - earlier in the day he boasted to ABC radio that there was only a "1 per cent'' chance of criminal charges being laid against him.

The 70-year-old former powerbroker, who made and unmade premiers, still doesn't get it - 99 per cent of the population will be enraged if criminal charges are not laid.

''Of course I'll be f---ing vindicated. I have been looked inside out with a microscope up my arse and everything is clean as far as I'm concerned,'' he said on the eve of the most explosive corruption inquiry since the Rum Corps.

The microscope must've been malfunctioning as ICAC has uncovered a crooked coal deal, dodgy water schemes and hidden interests in cafes.

But with another jaw-dropping inquiry rumoured to be in the pipeline investigating his dealings with former speaker of the state Parliament Richard Torbay, Eddie's tangles with the corruption watchdog are far from over.